Feb 6, 2010

These chicken quesadillas are a meal in one! Loaded with chicken and veggies and very filling (I couldn't finish mine). I made these for dinner with my leftover avocado mango salsa but these are also great for lunch or you can even serve them as appetizers.

Slice chicken breast in half so you have 4 cutlets. Season chicken generously with salt, pepper, cumin, oregano and garlic powder.

Lightly spray a skillet on medium heat with oil or if using a grill, grill chicken until cooked on both sides. Remove from heat and cut chicken into strips, set aside. To the skillet, add 1 tbsp oil and cook onions and peppers, season with salt and pepper. Cook about 2 minutes, add garlic and continue cooking until vegetables are soft being careful not to burn the garlic. When cooked, set aside.Heat skillet on medium heat and lightly spray with oil. Add tortilla, top with cheese, chicken, onions, peppers, and pico de gallo or avocado-mango salsa. Top with the other tortilla. Cheese should be melted and the bottom of the tortilla should be golden brown. Put a plate on top of the quesadilla to flip it over onto the plate. Then slide the other side onto the skillet. Cook another minute and remove with a spatula. Cut into wedges and serve with sour cream if you wish.

what is the points if you do not use the avocado salsa and a 1 point tortilla??? I would like it better with ff salsa!! Love your recipes. Made the Ministrone soup yesterday in our snow storm and can't keep the zucchini fries in the house!!!!

I Gina, I also love your website, you are so generous with your wonderful recipes! and I love how you send a recipe daily! Your recipes are just perfect, not too complicated, and are the same foods and ingredients I LOVE, this is the best recipe site! Do you have a picture of you up on the site? a bio? I would love to hear your story! Again, thank you so much for sharing your fantastic recipes!

@Cindy- Thank you!! I'm on maternity leave so I have more time to send new recipes every day but I go back to work at the end of the month so I'll only be posting a few times a week. I try! I don't have a photo on my site, but there is one on twitter if you follow me. I'll have to put a photo and a bio up soon.

I love chicken quesadillas! I cook them in half the time using a George Foreman grill. I don't have to turn them over....the grill does the work for me. I also brush the tortillas lightly with a small amount of olive oil. I'll have to try the low carb tortillas. Thanks for your great recipes!

I made these for dinner last night! Wow! So good! I never would have expected mangoes, avocados, and a quesadilla to taste good together. It was so fresh tasting. I could barely finish half! Your recipes rock!

I LOVE Mexican, but usually avoid it when I am dieting. We tried this Saturday night for dinner, and it was fantastic! Whenever I get the craving for Mexican, I know where to go. Thanks again for all these wonderful recipes!

I absolutely love this website. As a seasoned WW member for quite a few years it is nice to find some great, quick & easy recipes. I have tried quite a few recipes including the pot & leek soup, baked zucchini sticks, ham/swiss chicken (had these for supper tonight) and the beef strogonoff. All excellent that you can feed the whole family. Can't wait to try the mac & cheese & going to try to the asian turkey this week. Thanks for all your help!

Gina, I am new here and I cannot thank you enough for these incredible recipes! I love to eat good food and have gained some weight since I moved overseas. Now I can make yummy new recipes just like back home while here in Okinawa. ;) This is my third time on WW and this time I plan to reach my goal weight! ;)

Gina I made these last night and loved them!! WOW......these were amazing! Thank you for the scrumptious recipe. I just ate 1/2 because 1/4 cup of my cheese was 3 points and I also did not have low calorie wheat tortilla. :( I calculated that 1 tortilla is 3 points....so that means that 2 tortillas are 6 points! Not including the cheese and chicken and other add ons! I am scared I have no clue how many points I really ate. I grilled teh chicken on Gerge Foreman and followed what you said on everything else. Is there any way I can figure out how many points I am eating? I was wondering what 1/4 cup WW cheese is worth and the low cal tortillas ( 2 of them) are worth so I can compare and deduct points from my 35 weekly. Either way......these were sooooo good!

I am going to have these tomorrow during a girls movie night. I figure we will have a quesadilla bar were everyone is able to choose the toppings they want. I will stick with this recipe. Thanks for the idea.

I used the waffle iron idea...worked perfectly. thank you Kathleen. This meal was awesome. I have never made one of these before! I just had a pita pocket on hand and it worked real well. I also used a slice of pepper jack cheese. made it nice and spicy.Gina you are really something. Can not thank you enough. Just found your site today and I already made 3 things. and I still have 3 points left for dessert. hehe

I made these a few nights ago. I used regular mild Salsa instead of the mango and it was still delicious. The hubby and I split one and had the Zucchini Sticks on the side....delicious and brought the points value down. I am a Lifetime member but finding maintaining my goal weight really challenging. I love this site and pass the address on to everyone I know

Hi Gina,I just found your sight after determining to get rid of the last few pregnancy pounds. Wow I am so excited! Everything looks AMAZING! I made your chicken quesadillas last night. WOW! Soo good! I mean amazingly good! Did not taste healthy, would order it at a resturant, good!Thank you so much for your site! I'm ecstatic now about eating healthy even though 2 days ago I was dreading this process.

They had a Mexican night for our Wednesday night supper at church. Since I didn't know how it was prepared and I have to watch my salt, I made this for me. It was great!!!! I gave my husband a taste and he liked it too.

I recently started attempting to cook more frequently and discovered your blog. I love all of your recipes thus far. This one in particular is fantastic and a HUGE crowd pleaser with my husband as well - which is really hard to do! Thanks so much for all of the great recipes. They're so tasty that I often forget that they are healthy as well!

Thank you so much. We had them for dinner and greatly enjoyed. We have used your site to help plan dinner this week. It has been wonderful and has greatly reduced the stress of making daily healthy food choices!

I just want to say that your blog is amazing. You have so many wonderful dishes that my family makes and we are all on a weight watchers diet. With you already having the points on it makes it one hundred times better! thanks so much for your wonderful creations!

I got Mango Peach salsa (0 points) from Target's refridgerated section and added 1/2 a 100 calorie pack of Wholly Guacamole (1 point for half the packet, 3 points for the whole packet) to each quesadilla. Delicious! Thanks, Gina! I will likely just make this chicken and the vegetable mix when I'm craving fajitas...for very few points!

I have to say, I have loved the recipes I have tried from your site in the past week. I even impressed two of my foody friends sending them links, and usually I have to learn from them! My Mom and I are getting excited about Weight Watchers again after a few weeks of boredom, so thank you so much for making that possible!

I made these for the first time a couple weeks ago and again this week. They are wonderful. I love sauteed onions and red peppers, so I didn't miss the cheese so much (since I would tend to LOAD this with cheese on my own :-). I like that I can make them separately and give my husband more cheese for his, too. I love that it's a HUGE serving. It's good for nights when I'm really hungry. Thanks again for another fabulous addition to my dinner repertoire! I think it was pretty easy and fast, too. (I did use store-bought salsa to help with that.)

Made these last night without the mango salsa. This is the second time I made them and they were better this time. I served them with reduced fat sour cream and salsa verde!!! Excellent meal. Thanks for all of your incredible healthy recipes.

Gina I am in Nassau County. I find La Tortilla but they are 3pp per tortilla (larger ones) at Stop n Shop. Where do you find the smaller ones? (I have always made your recipes with the larger ones anyway but if I could find the smaller that would be great!)

I made these, except instead of using the skillet I cooked everything on the George Foreman, and I loved them! The salsa made it a little runny, so next time I'm using drained pica-de-gallo or however you spell that. My husband was impressed!

I have commented once before, but I have to say it again. I am such a HUGE FAN of you and your blog. I basically cook from your website each week and then tell all my friends how wonderful it is. You have made it so much easier to get off these 15 lbs. I just lost on W.W. Thank you for NORMAL and AMAZING food that meets all of my cravings and all my point values! You are awesome my dear.

I made these the other night and they were absolutely incredible! I used pico de gallo instead of the avocado-mango salsa and I made it following this recipe: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/pico-de-gallo-3/ Instead of lime juice I used vinegar, and instead of jalapeño I used cayenne pepper. I also added a bit of lemon-pepper seasoning to it. Also, I used red, orange, and yellow peppers in the quesadilla instead of just red and the whole thing came out amazing! My housemate tasted it and loved it as well. We both agree that it tastes like something straight out of Chili's!! Thank you, Gina for being so awesome! It's so rewarding to eat healthy, delicious meals. :)

Omg I made these today. They tasted good, and I guess it's a good recipe, but oh. I am not a cook. I just wanna pour a bowl of cereal and be done with it. Spent over an hour cooking, cutting and cleaning. I really admire people who can do this stuff everyday. Me? I'll stick with my microwave cheese on toast sandwiches for now.

I have used your site for the last 2 months that I have been on WW. I have lost over 10 pounds and really feel like I owe it all to you. Thank you so much for your wonderful ideas and recipes. You have made dieting easy and fun.

i just made four of your recipes in a row, and I'M SO EXCITED!!! :D I have people coming over tomorrow and i have made the lemon cheesecake cupcakes, the chocolate mousse, i made the mango salsa so i can make these quesadilla's for dinner and I made the broccoli baked mac and cheese for lunch. LOVE LOVE LOVE your site and i tell everyone i meet!

This is definitely one of my favorite dishes to make from your recipes! I've been following your site for over a year now, and when I first made these chicken quesadillas, my husband said that he would love to eat these weekly! I've made them a number of times now, and last week when we had them, we ate most of the mango avocado salsa before the chicken was even done cooking! You just can't go without that salsa! THANK YOU for giving me and my family healthy options that taste WAYYYY better than take out or dinner from a box!!

Best quesadillas ever!! I made a couple of small changes to adjust our family's taste. I probably messed with the calories and points but nbd. The chicken was a little bland for our family so I added some ginger, a pinch of chipotle powder, and red chili powder. Also cut the chicken into small pieces before cooking it. I didn't have the ingredients on hand for the avocado mango salsa so I just substituted with Chichi's chunky salsa which still tasted good. Lastly, pulled out the quesadilla maker I've been meaning to use for a while. Came out perfect! On point!